Making Solar Cells a Reality in Every Home: Opportunities and Challenges for Photovoltaic Device Design

Globally, the cumulative installed photovoltaic (PV) capacity has topped the 100-gigawatt (GW) milestone and is expected to reach 200 GW by the year 2015. More than 90% of the installed PV capacity employs bulk-silicon solar cells. Engineering problems that include thermal and optical challenges hav...

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Main Authors: Rajendra Singh, Githin Francis Alapatt, Akhlesh Lakhtakia
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IEEE 2013-01-01
Series:IEEE Journal of the Electron Devices Society
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Online Access:https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6589128/